As we’re now well into the 2013 college baseball season, College Baseball Daily continues our countdown to Selection Monday with our latest 2013 Regional Projections.
For this week’s projections, instead of being solely compiled based on RPI like they have been done in past weeks, every aspect was taken into consideration. College Baseball Daily’s Ginger Poulson (@gingerpoulson) compiled this list after analyzing RPI, overall records, conference standings, overall talent and several other factors. If you have any questions about the projections feel free to leave a comment below or send her a tweet.
Enjoy the regional projections!
KEY: Bolded Teams are Regional Hosts, (#) is National Seed, * is Automatic Qualifier
| Nashville Regional 1. *Vanderbilt (1) 2. Georgia Tech 3. Austin Peay State 4. *Holy Cross | Raleigh Regional 1. NC State 2. *UNC Wilmington 3. Auburn 4. *Wisconsin-Milwaukee
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| Chapel Hill Regional 1. *North Carolina (2) 2. *Campbell 3. *Western Carolina 4. *Charlotte | Louisville Regional 1. Louisville 2. *Indiana 3. Kentucky 4. *Tennessee Tech |
| Baton Rouge Regional 1. LSU (3) 2. Louisiana-Lafayette 3. Kansas 4. *Bryant | Clemson Regional 1. Clemson 2. Mississippi 3. Coastal Carolina 4. *Rider
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| Corvallis Regional 1. *Oregon State (4) 2. Cal Poly 3. Notre Dame 4. *Delaware State
| Starkville Regional 1. Mississippi State 2. *South Alabama 3. Miami (FL) 4. *Southern Miss
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| Fullerton Regional 1. *Cal State Fullerton (5) 2. Oklahoma State 3. San Diego 4. *CSU Bakersfield
| Los Angeles Regional 1. UCLA 2. *Kansas State 3. UC Irvine 4. *Columbia |
| Eugene Regional 1. Oregon (6) 2. Oklahoma 3. Seton Hall 4. *Gonzaga
| Fayetteville Regional 1. Arkansas 2. *Mercer 3. Rice 4. *South Dakota State
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| Charlottesville Regional 1. Virginia (7) 2. *Pittsburgh 3. Alabama 4. *Kent State
| Columbia Regional 1. South Carolina 2. Virginia Tech 3. Troy 4. *Maine |
| Tallahassee Regional 1. Florida State (8) 2. Florida 3. Florida Atlantic 4. *Jackson State
| Tempe Regional 1. Arizona State 2. *New Mexico 3. *Sam Houston State 4. *Wichita State |
Predicted Conference Champions (Automatic Qualifiers)
Note: Changes from last week are noted with the previously projected conference champion in italics following the newly predicted conference champion
America East: Maine
Atlantic 10: Charlotte
ACC: North Carolina
Atlantic Sun: Mercer
Big 12: Kansas State (Previous: Oklahoma )
Big Ten: Indiana
Big East: Pittsburgh (Previous: South Florida)
Big South: Campbell
Big West: Cal State Fullerton
CAA: UNC Wilmington
Conference USA: Southern Miss
Horizon: Wisconsin-Milwaukee (Previous: Valparaiso)
Ivy League: Columbia
MAAC: Rider
MAC: Kent State (Previous: Buffalo)
MEAC: Delaware State
Missouri Valley: Wichita State
Mountain West: New Mexico
Northeast: Bryant
Ohio Valley: Tennessee Tech
Pac-12: Oregon State (Previous: Oregon)
Patriot: Holy Cross
SEC: Vanderbilt
Southern: Western Carolina
Southland: Sam Houston State
SWAC: Jackson State
Summit League: South Dakota State
Sun Belt: South Alabama
West Coast: Gonzaga
WAC: Cal State Bakersfield
Breakdown of Teams by Conference
- 10 teams: SEC
- 8 teams: ACC
- 4 teams: Big 12, Big East, Pac 12, Sun Belt
- 3 teams: Big West
- 2 teams: Big South, Conference USA, Ohio Valley Conference, West Coast
- 1 team: America East, Atlantic Ten, Atlantic Sun, Big Ten, CAA, Horizon, Ivy, MAAC, MAC, MEAC, Missouri Valley, Mountain West, Northeast, Patriot, Southern, Southland, SWAC, Summit, WAC
11 comments
I enjoy seeing the regional projections and agree with the large majority of them. Arkansas has performed well in the high-powered SEC, but I question if their mid 40s RPI will be good enough to host a regional. I tend to think the NCAA will want to include another conference in the hosting action by using Indiana, Kansas St or South Alabama rather than Arkansas. We’ll see.
That’s a great point that I considered when selecting hosts! It really does depend on how things play out and what the selection committee decides, but great point!
You can’t pair up ASU vs. OSU – same conf.
Columbia should be sent to Fullerton and Bakersfield to UCLA in this scenario because the national seed should play the lesser of those 4 seeds.
I had to email this because the site wasn’t working from the back end during the late hours of the night that I finished it…somehow either I didn’t send my most recently saved version or I messed up the formatting but I didn’t have ASU vs OSU (fixing that now) so thanks for catching that formatting error!
What will happen to Arizona if the beat ASU and beat USC.. Will they make the tournament.
I’m not going to rule them out just yet, I actually put them in last week despite RPI because I thought they were going to do better this past weekend. They’d have to make a big statement though…like sweeping ASU in Tempe, and even then it might be a stretch. But it’s a possibility.
I figured you would change your stance on auburn after having them out the last few weeks, a 20’s rpi and 20’s SOS and being 31-21 usually gets you in in a power conference like the SEC. I do believe they still have to win 2 out of 3 this weekend against Arkansas to stay assured though.
sorry meant 30’s rpi
Louisville region with Kentucky and Indiana OUCHHH . I think Indiana might get a region. Either way . GEAUX TIGERS i dont think its going to matter who you put in B.R. This team is the most complete team in the nation .
Stony Brook had no problems in Baton Rouge last year!
Brian Foley
Editor of College Baseball Daily
The Los Angeles and Starkville Regional’s are no joke either.
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